Mafia: The Old Country And Gen Con Takeaways

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, our host Charles is joined by Wesley and Eric to talk about Mafia: The Old Country, a prequel set in early 20th century Sicily, as well as the experience of Gen Con 2025, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, and Wheel World. We discuss knife fighting and stealthy sneaking, the power scale of Metroidvanias, and... I'm reading a note here about Italian frogs?

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Charles Harte (@chuckduck365)
Wesley LeBlanc (@wesleyleblanc)
Eric Van Allen (@seamoosi)

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00:00 - Introduction
04:18 - Mafia: The Old Country
35:05 - Gen Con 2025
1:10:26 - Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
1:17:05 - Wheel World

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering the video game industry.
0:18.5	Join us every Thursday or Friday on this week
0:21.0	for a discussion about the latest gaming news reviews
0:23.7	and exclusive reveals alongside Game of Former Staff
0:26.1	and special guests from around the industry.
0:28.6	I'm one of your hosts, Charles Hart,
0:30.6	and today I'm joined by Wesley LeBlanc.
0:33.6	Hello, hello, I'm back.
0:35.4	I'm barely alive.
0:37.1	Barely alive. Wow the throes of COVID.
0:39.6	Wow. And making sacrifices to be here to serve your magazine.
0:45.6	It's not much of a sacrifice. I'm on like day seven and feeling pretty normal.
0:48.7	So I actually wanted to come on and talk and do something other than rot away in my quarantine couch.
0:54.8	Fair.
0:55.7	And Eric Van Allen.
0:57.7	Hello, hello.
0:58.6	Week two.
0:59.4	I'm still alive.
1:00.8	I'm still going.
1:03.9	It's, you know, you know we're having a great week at Game Informer when everyone's
1:08.0	introduction is like, well, we're alive.
1:28.2	That's the bar right now. The worst part about this kind of stuff like these weeks is like it all just stays with us. Like none of it gets to go out and no one knows why. Yeah. Yeah. But wow, is this week hell? Not anybody, not game informer's fault. Like we're... Yeah, it's my fault.
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